2005 News & Announcements

July 2005
July 18, 2005—Analyses of use of both the emergency contraception (EC) Web site— NOT-2-LATE.com — and its Arabic-language version demonstrate that women need more information about contraception and other reproductive health issues, according to two articles published in...
May 2005
May 4, 2005 (WASHINGTON, DC) – A national survey of hospital emergency rooms shows that staff at 42% of non-Catholic hospitals and 55% of Catholic hospitals said they do not dispense emergency contraception (EC) for any reason, including sexual assault. The study will appear as an early...
February 2005
February 25, 2005 – Rachel Roth of Ibis collaborated with Palak Shah of PRA on a chapter about the intersection of reproductive rights and criminal justice policies in the U.S. A fact sheet about women in the criminal justice and prison systems is also available. Visit www.defendingjustice...
January 2005
January 3, 2005 – Dr. Chris Elias, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ibis Reproductive Health, has announced the appointment of Kelly Blanchard as the group’s new President. She succeeds the late Charlotte Ellertson, who established Ibis in 2002 “to improve women’s...
January 2005
January 4, 2005 – The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York on behalf of several individual plaintiffs challenging the FDA's ongoing denial of OTC status for Plan B. The lawsuit seeks an injunction ordering the FDA to approve the OTC switch for women of...